Brad Pitt

A few years ago, director Adam McKay was reading everything he could get his hands on about the credit and housing crisis of the mid-2000s. When he stumbled upon "The Big Short," Michael Lewis' account of the meltdown, he read the book in one single, sleepless night.

"I remember I picked it up at 9 o'clock at night," says the Malvern, Chester County-raised filmmaker best known for "Anchorman," "Stepbrothers" and "Talladega Nights." "I was in bed and just started reading it and couldn't put it down. It had this page-scurrying energy to it.

"Yet at the same time, it was explaining financial esoterica to me. And it...

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